Year: 2024

Money Savings Hints & Tips

Savings Hints & Tips

By Elliot Ashby / 11th September 2024 / Comments Off on Savings Hints & Tips

If you already have some savings, how often do you check on them to make sure they’re helping you achieve your goals? Here are some tips to help you make the most of the money you’ve put away. Take some time to think about your finances  Can you save more than you do now? Look […]

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Money Savings Hints & Tips

Key UK savings statistics

By Elliot Ashby / 10th September 2024 / Comments Off on Key UK savings statistics

In association with The Building Societies Association, we are supporting UK Savings Week which takes place between 9th-15th September 2024. Whether you see your savings as a safety net or a trampoline, a ‘just in case’ account or ‘a trip of a lifetime’ account. Your savings are what you make of them. See below some […]

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Jon’s Savings Blog

By Elliot Ashby / 9th September 2024 / Comments Off on Jon’s Savings Blog

Our Savings Product Manager Jon Sweeting provides an insight into one of his first experiences of making a significant decision with his finances and what it taught him… take a read below. Part of my role is attending networking events. The one overarching theme I have observed in nearly 20 years of attending these events, […]

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UK Savings Week 2024

By Elliot Ashby / 9th September 2024 / Comments Off on UK Savings Week 2024

In association with The Building Societies Association, we are supporting UK Savings Week which takes place between 9th-15th September 2024. First launched in 2022, UK Savings Week aims to get people engaged with saving, whether they are already savers; have no savings but could save a little; or are unable to save right now but […]

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Mutual e-magazine: Issue 3 – now available

By Richard Steed / 4th September 2024 / Comments Off on Mutual e-magazine: Issue 3 – now available

READ ISSUE 3 HERE Mutual provides you with all things Harpenden Building Society. Giving you an inside look into society news, community work, volunteering, savings and fraud advice and more. Here we bring you our third issue of Mutual. We hope you enjoy it! Some highlights included within this issue are: Chairman introduction with Nigel […]

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Message to our Savers: Rate decreases

By Elliot Ashby / 15th August 2024 / Comments Off on Message to our Savers: Rate decreases

We consider many factors when reviewing the pricing of our savings accounts which includes the monitoring of market conditions whilst ensuring we provide our customers with fair value on their savings. Following the Bank of England base rate reduction in August, we are letting you know we will be reducing the interest rates on all […]

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August Bank Holiday Update

By Elliot Ashby / 13th August 2024 / Comments Off on August Bank Holiday Update

We are closed on Monday 26th August. Any payment requests received after 3pm on Friday 23rd August, will be processed on Tuesday 27th August. Any payments received after 4pm on Friday 23rd August, will be applied to your account on Tuesday 27th August and back dated to the date the funds were received.

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Our Mortgages – Standard Variable Rate decreases from 13th August

By Elliot Ashby / 13th August 2024 / Comments Off on Our Mortgages – Standard Variable Rate decreases from 13th August

We are changing our Standard Variable Rate from 8.04% to 7.79% from 13th August 2023 for new applications, and 1st September for existing customers. We will be contacting all affected customers to advise of the change and what it means to them. Decreases to our current variable rates across our product range will also take […]

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Harpenden wins ‘Best Local Building Society’ Award for 10th Year

By Elliot Ashby / 1st August 2024 / Comments Off on Harpenden wins ‘Best Local Building Society’ Award for 10th Year

Harpenden Building Society has won the ‘Best Local Building Society’ category at the prestigious What Mortgage Awards for a 10th consecutive year. Harpenden continue to work tirelessly to serve its communities and members, providing continued support and comfort during these challenging social and financial times. The Society has created a platform for sustainable growth, and […]

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Urgent message to our members – accounts transactions

By Richard Steed / 24th July 2024 / Comments Off on Urgent message to our members – accounts transactions

Wednesday July 24th 2024 2:05pm: We are experiencing a service outage which is affecting our ability to view and transact on your accounts. Our team is currently working to restore normal service. You are still able to view your accounts using Harpenden Online and request payments this way, however we will not be able to […]

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